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The H Roundup - Mir divides Ubuntu, Java flaws, and puppies

Welcome to The H Roundup, your rapid review of the week with the most read news on The H, the security alerts and open source releases, and the essential feature articles – all in one quick-to-scan news item. This week, Canonical's Mir divides the Ubuntu community, the Dell Sputnik arrives in Europe, more Java flaws, LibreOffice 4.0.1, Puppy Linux releases, Zopfli, and OpenOffice reaches 40 million downloads.

Top News

This week was a busy one in the Ubuntu community as Canonical unveiled its plans for Mir, a new display stack for the distribution. This revelation was followed by many community members publicly voicing their disapproval of how the development of the new software was handled, prompting Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth to address the issue on his blog. In the meantime, Dell readied its developer laptop pre-loaded with Ubuntu for sale in Europe.

On the security front, a web site appeared which demonstrated the ability to fill a user's hard drive thanks to the power of HTML5, Java was attacked yet again, and researchers discovered a flaw that would allow an attacker to bypass sudo's security under certain circumstances.

The first update to LibreOffice 4 was released, bringing the Android remote control for Impress to all versions of the open source office suite, and Barry Kauler, herder of puppies at Puppy Linux, released three different versions of his distribution. Google released a new compression algorithm and Apache OpenOffice celebrated 40 million downloads of a single one of their releases.

Open Source Releases

Among other open source releases this week, Eclipse Orion 2.0 was released, MariaDB Galera Cluster graduated to being production ready, the KDE developers released their monthly maintenance update, and systemd 198 arrived.